Kathmandu, 25 Mar : Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Parchanda’ has said women’s participation in every sector of the society was necessary.
Inaugurating the ‘International Women Leadership Summit-23’ organised by Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) Women Leadership Forum here from today, Prime Minister shared that the country is moving towards building an equitable society by prioritizing women’s participation in every activity of the society not only in political leadership.
He opined, “An equitable society can be build due to participation of women in every sector including education, health, environment and social service. Equal representation of women is needed in policy-making level by involving them in political leadership.
” Saying the constitution has guaranteed certain percent of women participation in different bodies of the government, the PM further said adequate amount of budget and resources have been allocated for the empowerment of women. Prime Minister Dahal mentioned, “The constitution has made it mandatory that there should be 33 per cent participation of women in the parliament. There is now representation of more than 41 per cent women in local levels.
This political participation of women is more as compared to other countries.” He laid emphasis on the need of increasing women’s participation in economic sector and entrepreneurship development.
